Henry Adams Quotes

Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

A point of rest alone explains motion.

Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.

Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies.

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

We're used to thinking of force as a stable phenomenon, but it has a cinematic variable, which is acceleration.

Words may move, but they're never moving fast enough.

Not all speed is movement.

What goes up must come down.

For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In particular, I feel very close to Newton's laws of motion. On the ice, you can experience Newton's laws of motion in their purest, most elegant form.

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.

Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down.

It is indeed a law of politics as well as of physics, that a body in action must overcome a body at rest.

It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still. So fall with me. Fall down with me. And stay.

to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other

How fast you are moving is more important than where you are.